Across the nation.

Playwright Named In Woman's Suit

January 20, 1996|By Richard Liefer.

BOSTON — A woman is suing Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott, saying he threatened to give her a failing grade unless she had sex with him while she was a student at Boston University.

Nicole Niemi of St. Paul, who is married and in her mid-30s, withdrew from the university's playwriting program in 1994 because of the alleged sexual advances, her lawsuit says.

Walcott, 66, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. He could not be reached for comment.